The project on « European Youth Perceptions of National Intelligence Services » is the first research project to be carried out collectively, with the participation of universities from the ICE´s Academic Network. The objective of the project is to carry out a study on the opinion that young Europeans have about their Intelligence and Security Services, to measure the extent to which European youth Trust Intelligence services.
Professor Antonio Diaz (University of Cadiz), who led a similar project at the national level in 2018 en Spain, coordinates this project trying to extrapolate this study to European level. All members are invited to participate in the project, through the universities of the academic network or other universities in their countries specialized in the area of Intelligence knowledge. Quotas will be established for the number of interviews per country, gender, and age range, including that the national sample is representative of the country’s population. If necessary, weights (adjustments) will be applied by gender and age according to the distribution of the adult population per country (INE, Eurostat).
There are several items cover, sociodemographic items, missions of intelligence agencies, power of intelligence agencies, trust and control. Sample population is made up of young Europeans aged 16-30 years. The potential coutries which participate, cover different types of political regimes, political cultures and geographical zones. Spain –University of Cádiz- will be the leading partner. The method used is online survey targeting adults.
The survey is conducted over a period of 15 days starting from the date the survey company receives the questionnaires. The survey will consist of 30 items, with an estimated completion time of 8-9 minutes. Due to the institutional structure varying from country to country, decisions are required on which specific agencies should be the focus of the survey.
This project is being developed during 2024 and the results are expected to be available next November.